Confluence CVE-2019-3398 Path Traversal Exploitation

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•updated Aug 12, 2024•3•0•24

This rule detects attempts to exploit CVE-2019-3398, a path traversal vulnerability in Confluence. The detection logic specifically looks for HTTP POST requests to '/upload.action' containing the path traversal sequence 'filename=../../../../'. This pattern indicates an attempt to upload a file to an arbitrary location on the server, which is characteristic of the CVE-2019-3398 exploitation.